Austria Other Key Worker
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See if you're a match →Austria's Red-White-Red Card for other key workers is for skilled employees with an Austrian job offer who meet the points and pay rules. It generally requires qualifications, experience, language or age points, and compliant employment terms.
- Type
- Skilled-work residence
- Job fit
- Workers with a qualifying role or strong professional profile
- Core requirements
- Job offer, qualifications, and pay or points rules
- What to know
- The job usually has to meet salary and skill rules
Summary
Austria's Red-White-Red Card for Other Key Workers covers qualified workers with an Austrian job offer who do not fit the shortage-occupation route. The role must meet the salary floor, the applicant must score enough points, and Austria's labor-market test must not find an equally qualified registered jobseeker.
This route is useful for experienced professionals, managers, specialists, and people with special know-how whose occupation is not on the shortage list.
Eligibility
- You are a third-country national
- You have a specific Austrian job offer
- The salary meets Austria's current key-worker floor
- You score enough points based on education or special skills, work experience, age, and language ability
- The Austrian Public Employment Service labor-market test supports the hire
- Your residence file is otherwise admissible: valid passport, health-insurance coverage, no public-order or security concern, and enough means to support yourself without relying on Austrian welfare. Austria generally does not require separate proof of locally customary accommodation for a Red-White-Red Card, but housing costs can still matter when the authority checks means.
What This Route Allows
If approved, this route gives you skilled-work residence in Austria. Key limit: The job usually has to meet salary and skill rules.
What This Route Is Not
This is not a guarantee of approval. Immigration authorities can still review documents, admissibility, background, funds, and whether the facts match the pathway rules.
Key Documents
- Passport
- Austrian employment contract or binding job offer
- Employer declaration
- Degree, training, or special-skill evidence
- Work references
- Language certificates if claiming language points
- Professional recognition documents if the role is regulated
Next Steps
- Confirm the Austrian employer is ready to sponsor the route.
- Check the current salary floor.
- Estimate points under the Other Key Worker criteria.
- Prepare qualification and work-history documents.
- Have the employer prepare the employer declaration.
- File with the appropriate Austrian authority.